Time to go Board Op for KBOO Community Radio in Portland, OR. But FIRST, download an East Coast News Show, the one that replaced *Local* News Programming.
Then, I'll run it for the KBOO Tuesday Talk Radio Show. You know, the
one that was chopped back from 90 minutes to 60 minutes to make room for
that East Coast News Show.

But, just before I run Talk Radio,
I'll play an announcement by our Station Navigator that says there IS no
Progressive Talk Radio in Portland, so why don't we eliminate TWELVE
CULTURALLY DIVERSE Shows and replace them with Yet-Another-East-Coast
Radio Show, All afternoon, every afternoon.

Surreal.

Cherie BlackfeatherWhat
KBOO and all community organizations need is a Creative Director to
provide Creative Direction. Uncreative people are not capable of leading
creative people. Creative and capable people cannot thrive in such
anti-creative environments. The proof is
in the pudding. Any individuals who are managing to be creative or
produce something of quality in that environment are doing so without
the support of the organization - in fact they are doing so by steering
as clear of the dysfunction and politics of the station as possible. I
do not approve of replacing local programming with Thom Hartman. But I
also do not believe that KBOO operates the way that it should in order
to attract talent, support and nurture talent and skill. There's more to
making good radio than knowing which buttons and levers to push.
There's more to community radio than simply filling the airwaves with
people just because they happen to be local or have been on the air for
30 years. The answers to KBOO's problems will not be found through
political blustering and protests and factionalism. If the core values
were about nurturing creativity then it would be evident at every level
of the organization. Creative environments are creative and innovative.
You can't fake that shit for long.

Barbara BernsteinI
think we need to stand together with clarity in opposing 15 hours of
Thom Hartmann every afternoon on KBOO. Killing the last bastion of
KBOO's eclectically wonderful afternoon music is insensitive if not
suicidal.

Cherie BlackfeatherI
am not even familiar enough with these programs to defend them
individually but I do agree that this airtime belongs to local
programming. It is a bad idea to depend on one or two anchor programs
produced elsewhere to carry the whole station financially.
The only reason KBOO can't produce equal or better programming to
attract a large listenership that will translate into large membership
is because the organization and the people who run it are not qualified
to "manage FOR creativity". You can't just throw bodies at that kind of
problem. A creative thinker can apply creativity to Development, to
Management, to Board leadership, to Programming, to Outreach, to
Volunteer Training etc.... If there were creative thinkers in these
positions - the station would be very different than it is right now.
But first the members must comprehend this necessity and focus on how to
make creativity the first and most important value of all. Until that
happens - it will remain in degradation as it has for these past at
least 15 years.

You tell em comrade Cherie!

"What
KBOO and all community organizations need is a Creative Director to
provide Creative Direction. Uncreative people are not capable of leading
creative people. Creative and capable people cannot thrive in such
anti-creative environments. The proof is
in the pudding."

In others words, FITCH = EVIL INCARNATE

"The answers to KBOO's problems will not be found through
political blustering and protests and factionalism."

Wait. That's what we do. Blustering fractional protests. Lynch mobs. They're staples of the Revolution. What the hell is Comrade Cherie talking about? Look comrade, you're either with us or against us! Get your propaganda straight or ELSE!!-Meresa Titchell

UPDATE: And now Comrade Cherie is "not even familiar enough with these programs to defend them"? ???? Comrade Cherie SHUT THE HELL UP!!! That's an official Inner Party order.

DEFECTING FROM THE INNER PARTY?

Then start packing for the Happy Valley Reeducation Center, where we guarantee ALL Party Members WILL be HAPPY.

But seriously folks...

For readers who don't know the background, this blog was started by a group of KBOO radio fans.

Recent events at the station have been blown out of proportion by a small group of KBOO members who feel threatened by actions of management trying to address the very real issue of financial trouble and keep the station viable.

These people instead believe they are victims of a conspiracy involving Station Navigator Lynn Fitch and have promoted their cause with the worst kind of missionary zeal, in some cases using unethical tactics like impersonation. They call themselves "Keep KBOO KBOO" and appear to be led by Theresa Mitchell, who has a penchant for using revolutionary imagery and jargon. Allies include KBOO Board members abusing their influence. This begged for satire, thus this blog was born.

We are documenting the ongoing tussle and any new fibs and misinformation the "Keep KBOO KBOO" crowd creates. They also have a website called savekboo.org . We recommend anyone leaving comments there to archive them in text or images, as a certain amount of rewriting history is known to happen there.

BACK TO THE BARRICADES COMRADES!!!!

Praise for "Save KBOO from Save KBOO"

"is the funniest thing I've read in a long time." - delighted at Portland Indymedia June 7, 2013

"Anyway, the obsessives here are directly and clearly defined by how many 'NYAH NYAH NYAH-NYAH-NYAH-NYAH (e.g. "save kboo from asave kboo")'-titled smear-blog Obsessive Paranoiac websites they can manage to create in a week. " -huh? at Portland Indymedia June 7, 2013